Lot Essay
A satinwood commode inlaid with very similar stiff marquetry neo-classical urns, by William Gates, is in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace (see: O. Brackett, Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1950, pl. CCII).
Designed in the George III 'antique' manner with inlaid 'bacchic' vase marquetry medallion and carved vase-capped 'herm' feet; its Grecian frieze which is embellished with a guilloche of alternating palmettes and honeysuckle sprays relates to a 1781 pattern for door-case ornament published in Designs for Various Ornaments 1777 - 1801 by M. A. Pergolesi, who worked as a decorative artist for Robert Adam (d. 1792) (see: E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of Furniture Design, Suffolk, 1990, p. 455, pl. 32
Designed in the George III 'antique' manner with inlaid 'bacchic' vase marquetry medallion and carved vase-capped 'herm' feet; its Grecian frieze which is embellished with a guilloche of alternating palmettes and honeysuckle sprays relates to a 1781 pattern for door-case ornament published in Designs for Various Ornaments 1777 - 1801 by M. A. Pergolesi, who worked as a decorative artist for Robert Adam (d. 1792) (see: E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of Furniture Design, Suffolk, 1990, p. 455, pl. 32